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This paper presents gossip algorithms for aggregation tasks that demonstrate both robustness to adversarial corruptions of any order of magnitude and optimality across a substantial range of these corruption levels. Gossip algorithms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Bernhard Haeupler , Marc Kaufmann , Raghu Raman Ravi , Ulysse Schaller

This paper presents greedy gossip with eavesdropping (GGE), a novel randomized gossip algorithm for distributed computation of the average consensus problem. In gossip algorithms, nodes in the network randomly communicate with their…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-05-14 Deniz Ustebay , Boris Oreshkin , Mark Coates , Michael Rabbat

Federated Learning is a popular approach for distributed learning due to its security and computational benefits. With the advent of powerful devices in the network edge, Gossip Learning further decentralizes Federated Learning by removing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Tom Goethals , Merlijn Sebrechts , Stijn De Schrijver , Filip De Turck , Bruno Volckaert

In decentralized cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning, agents can aggregate information from one another to learn policies that maximize a team-average objective function. Despite the willingness to cooperate with others, the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-27 Martin Figura , Yixuan Lin , Ji Liu , Vijay Gupta

Gossip algorithms for aggregation have recently received significant attention for sensor network applications because of their simplicity and robustness in noisy and uncertain environments. However, gossip algorithms can waste significant…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Alexandros G. Dimakis , Anand D. Sarwate , Martin J. Wainwright

This paper analyzes a class of dissemination algorithms for the discovery of distributed contents in Peer-to-Peer unstructured overlay networks. The algorithms are a mix of protocols employing local knowledge of peers' neighborhood and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-03-13 Stefano Ferretti

Efficient and robust algorithms for decentralized estimation in networks are essential to many distributed systems. Whereas distributed estimation of sample mean statistics has been the subject of a good deal of attention, computation of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-01-25 Igor Colin , Aurélien Bellet , Joseph Salmon , Stéphan Clémençon

We address the issue of speeding up the training of convolutional neural networks by studying a distributed method adapted to stochastic gradient descent. Our parallel optimization setup uses several threads, each applying individual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Michael Blot , David Picard , Matthieu Cord

Gossip algorithms are attractive for in-network processing in sensor networks because they do not require any specialized routing, there is no bottleneck or single point of failure, and they are robust to unreliable wireless network…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Alexandros G. Dimakis , Soummya Kar , Jose M. F. Moura , Michael G. Rabbat , Anna Scaglione

Distributed learning paradigms, such as federated and decentralized learning, allow for the coordination of models across a collection of agents, and without the need to exchange raw data. Instead, agents compute model updates locally based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Stefan Vlaski , Christian Schroth , Michael Muma , Abdelhak M. Zoubir

In this work we present a new framework for the analysis and design of randomized gossip algorithms for solving the average consensus problem. We show how classical randomized iterative methods for solving linear systems can be interpreted…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-04 Nicolas Loizou , Peter Richtárik

As decentralized AI and edge intelligence become increasingly prevalent, ensuring robustness and trustworthiness in such distributed settings has become a critical issue-especially in the presence of corrupted or adversarial data.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-12 Anna Van Elst , Igor Colin , Stephan Clémençon

We design and analyze gossip algorithms for networks with correlated data. In these networks, either the data to be distributed, the data already available at the nodes, or both, are correlated. This model is applicable for a variety of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-02-09 Bernhard Haeupler , Asaf Cohen , Chen Avin , Muriel Médard

In this paper we study two related iterative randomized algorithms for distributed computation of averages. The first one is the recently proposed Broadcast Gossip Algorithm, in which at each iteration one randomly selected node broadcasts…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-07-25 Paolo Frasca , Fabio Fagnani

We tackle the problem of a set of agents achieving resilient consensus in the presence of attacked agents. We present a discrete-time reputation-based consensus algorithm for synchronous and asynchronous networks by developing a local…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-02 Guilherme Ramos , Daniel Silvestre , Carlos Silvestre

This paper addresses the problem of distributed learning of average belief with sequential observations, in which a network of $n>1$ agents aim to reach a consensus on the average value of their beliefs, by exchanging information only with…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Kaiqing Zhang , Yang Liu , Ji Liu , Mingyan Liu , Tamer Başar

This paper addresses the problem of robust estimation in gossip algorithms over arbitrary communication graphs. Gossip algorithms are fully decentralized, relying only on local neighbor-to-neighbor communication, making them well-suited for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-01 Anna Van Elst , Igor Colin , Stephan Clémençon

In this paper, we propose a distributed off-policy actor critic method to solve multi-agent reinforcement learning problems. Specifically, we assume that all agents keep local estimates of the global optimal policy parameter and update…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-25 Yan Zhang , Michael M. Zavlanos

In this work we present a randomized gossip algorithm for solving the average consensus problem while at the same time protecting the information about the initial private values stored at the nodes. We give iteration complexity bounds for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Filip Hanzely , Jakub Konečný , Nicolas Loizou , Peter Richtárik , Dmitry Grishchenko

This work studies the distributed learning process on a network of agents. Agents make partial observation about an unknown hypothesis and iteratively share their beliefs over a set of possible hypotheses with their neighbors to learn the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-19 P Raghavendra Rao , Pooja Vyavahare